Creator Compass
Deep thinkers don’t dwell in Kindle popular highlights.
They wander, explore, and feast where others don’t even look.
When you use the gift God gave you—even just to process your own life—
God can weave meaning into it far beyond what you see.
David didn’t know:
Psalm 22 would be quoted by Jesus
It would be sung for 3,000 years
It would become one of the clearest Messianic windows
His metaphors would match the cross exactly
He just wrote.
He wrote honestly.
He wrote imagin
The most profitable niche is you. Your unique skills, interests, and experience overlap in a way that allow you to solve profitable problems for people you enjoy working with. The authentic don’t have to compete with anyone but themselves.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
And so the more authentic you are to who you are, and what you love to do, the less competition you’re gonna have. So, you can escape competition through authenticity when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. And normally that would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet you can turn that into a career.
Naval Ravikant • The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
There’s something deeply freeing about connecting ideas just for the joy of it — not to produce, not to publish, not to perform.
Just to see what speaks to what.
It’s like the way sequoia trees grow — their roots stretch out wide and intertwine beneath the surface, forming a quiet network of strength.
No single tree stands alone. The forest stands
... See moreWhere have I been trying to create from effort instead of connection?
Create → Pause → Delight → Continue (the sustainable creative rhythm)
God’s rhythm: Creation → Pause → Delight → Continue.
Our rhythm: Create create create create create create create crash.
Sabbath isn’t the break after the work.
Sabbath is the architecture that makes the work possible.
Call It Good
This thought hit me today:
God didn’t stop after each day of creation and wait to see how many likes it got.
He didn’t ask the angels, “Thoughts? Be honest.”
He didn’t refresh a dashboard.
He just looked at what He made and called it good.
Then He moved on.
Meanwhile, I’ll create something and immediately start wondering:
Did people see it?
Did